Full Description
This volume focuses on the vernacular forms of English found at various locations both in Britain and Ireland as well as a few in continental Europe. The goal of these chapters is to provide histories of those dialects not necessarily leading to standard English, largely within the framework of language variation and change, which is the immediate concern of the opening chapters. There follow treatments of dialects in English including that of early London and the various regions of England. The English language in Scotland is given special treatment with chapters on Scots and Standard Scottish English. Wales and Ireland form the focus of subsequent chapters which in particular examine language contact and its effect on English in these regions. The volume closes with presentations of the development of English in the Channel Islands, Gibraltar, Malta and Cyprus.
Contents
General editor's introduction Raymond Hickey; Introduction to Volume IV Raymond Hickey; Part I. Language Variation and Change: 1. Sociolinguistic sources of change Devyani Sharma; 2. Lifespan changes Isabelle Buchstaller and Susanne Evans-Wagner; 3. Supraregional varieties, standards and vernaculars Raymond Hickey; 4. Historical divisions and perceptual dialectology Chris Montgomery; Part II. English in England: 5. Dialects dialectology and history of English Warren Maguire; 6. History of received pronunciation Anne Fabricius; 7. Early London English Laura Wright; 8. The recent history of London English Susan Fox; 9. English in South-West of England Susanne Wagner; 10. English in East Anglia David Britain and Robert Potter; 11. English in midlands Esther Asprey and Natalie Braber; 12. English in Merseyside Anthony Grant and Raymond Hickey; 13. English in Tyneside Adam Mearns; Part III. English in Wales: 14. History of English in Wales Robert Penhallurick; Part IV. English in Scotland: 15. History of Scots Joanna Kopaczyk; 16. Lexicography of Scots Maggie Scott; 17. Scots and Scottish standard English Jane Stuart-Smith and Rachel Macdonald; 18. English in Orkney and Shetland Peter Sundkvist; Part V. English in Ireland: 19. History and diffusion of Irish English Raymond Hickey; 20. Southern Irish English Raymond Hickey; 21. Northern Irish English Raymond Hickey; Part VI. English in Europe: 22. English in Channel Islands Heinrich Ramisch; 23. English in Gibraltar Christina Suárez-Gómez and Elena Seoane; 24. English in Malta Alexandra Vella and Sarah Grech; 25. English in Cyprus Sarah Buschfeld and Manuela Vida-Mannl.
